Do Cardinals brass have moxie to make midseason moves to be great?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

"The season of the front office." That's what St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson called the 2022 season as it began, and more than 90 games in -- it still is. Frederickson joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer and BPIB host Derrick Goold to discuss the Cardinals at the All-Star break. They're a good team, a team with a winning record, and a team in need of a significant pitching upgrade to remain in the hunt to be a playoff team, let alone a great team. That puts them in a pinch. The front office has proven it can rebuild a bullpen during a season, but to do so this season might mean adding a frontline starter, which they've been reluctant to do in the past, let alone at the trade deadline. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stltoday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:17.5	What to use the biggest question going into the second half?
0:22.6	Are they going to get the help that they need?
0:25.6	I mean, I said it, I think probably when we were doing this down at spring,
0:28.6	like this to me is the season of the front office.
0:32.6	They've got the pieces, if healthy, to be a team that could be good.
0:37.6	If they get the right moves, they could be better than that.
0:40.1	And I think it's time for them to be better than good.
0:49.3	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball.
0:51.6	Brought to you by Clause of By Design of St. Louis.
0:53.3	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould joined this week.
0:56.7	Once again for a special mid-season edition of the best podcast in baseball by St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist,
1:04.9	Ben Fredrickson.
1:06.3	We are at Bush Stadium having just seen the extremes of the Cardinals season.
1:12.4	We saw a game where they stretched their roster to its brink to become better than the team
1:18.5	they probably are and beat the best team in the National League.
1:22.2	And then got whiplash the next night as they misplaced a six-run lead to lose because of what they're missing
1:31.2	again pitching depth and economical starting pitching and all the things that have caught up to them
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